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I understand.

taersh wrote: Tue Aug 04, 2020 7:55 pm Have you ever heard of: learning by doing?

Usually I do, but

grandmaslaptop wrote: Sun Aug 02, 2020 10:05 am I cannot test this for another week because my laptop is unavailable, but I’m hoping to know what to do when I get back to it.

Alright, sorry for disturbing y’all. I won’t ask so many questions.

JWM themes (window manager) -->Decoration of menu, tray, and window border.


Hmm, I’ve tried messing around with the jwm themes so I know where to do that. But for this gtk theme I don’t wish to customize the window more than the gtk theme does. In the standard gtk themes in my puppy the jwm ...

You can make a directory "/root/.themes" and place them there, the same goes for icons, "/root/.icons" and "/root/.fonts".


I read about it somewhere, but they recommended linking in .themes instead of putting the files there because otherwise there was a risk of the folder corrupting or ...

Thanks! I didn’t know it was that simple, I thought .deb premade packages wouldn’t work. Now my mind can rest

Has anyone done anything similar to this? Would the method I described work?

What I want to do is install a gtk theme like Arc or Adwaita to get some eye candy.

My puppy: Precise 5.7.1, frugally installed.
I cannot test this for another week because my laptop is unavailable, but I’m hoping to know what to do when I get back to it.

From what I have searched, older versions ...

Thanks for the other recommendations, I might try them in the future but I believe Precise 5.7.1 will be what I’ll stick to. Regarding looks, I would like to import a nice gtk 2 theme. I don’t know how I would go to do this or where. I’m looking for a modern dark look with square windows (not like ...

Hold on.
Keep the full install, for now.


Darn, I was a little bit too quick and deleted full install folders. I can still boot my save through the Precise571 directory as suggested earlier, but it looks like I can’t properly shutdown or reboot. At the black screen it shows a ‘kernel panic’ has ...

I haven’t deleted anything as of yet, but I will probably delete the full install soon. The ‘precise5.7.1.frugal’ folder only contains one file “ATAHD”. Its opened with text but doesn’t have anything in it (what I can see), is there something missing?

I have another issue though, when scrolling ...

Can I customize the tray icons that are on the right side such as battery indicator and volume etc.?


I don’t if you have solved this yet, but as soon as I got a little grip of the os (today) I changed the volume icon on the tray to a clone I made of win10’s volume icon I am so used with. If ...

Thanks. I will try this now. But since I have already made a full install, won’t installing a frugal create a second install instead of replacing the old one? The reason I wonder is because it says that it can coexist with another distro. I wouldn’t want an extra copy of puppy existing on the hard ...

UPDATE:

It was working fine (I’m using precise 5.7.1) until I booted it after shutting it off. It started fresh instead of booting with my precisesave.2fs. If I open sda1 on it I can see that it did create the save file and stores it in /mnt/home along with puppy_precise_5.7.1.sfs. Before shutting ...

There is, of course, the issue of which Pentium M you're saddled with. From what you say about needing to use "forcepae" with Lubuntu, I'd hazard a guess you've got the earlier ' Banias ' variant. These did have PAE, but for some crazy reason, the way Intel built them they didn't advertise this ...

I have a really old laptop from 2001 that needs refreshing. I researched and found puppy Linux and lubuntu, which seems like the best choices. From what I found, tahrpup was the most suiting for low-ram pc’s, just what I need. I tried lubuntu, bypassed PAE with ‘forcepae’ and tried it. Wasn’t for me ...